Nasu (manga)

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Nasu
茄子
Genre	Comedy, Slice of life
Manga
Author	Iou Kuroda
Publisher	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Afternoon
Original run	2000 – 2002
Volumes	3

Nasu (茄子, Nasu^? lit. Eggplant) is a manga series by Iou Kuroda. Serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon manga magazine, the series spanned a total of 24 chapters and three tankōbon volumes, the first of which was released on July 2001, the second of which was released on May 2002, and the last of which was released on December 2002.

A short story from the series, "Summer in Andalusia", was later adapted into an anime film in 2003, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, which was directed by Kitarō Kōsaka and produced by Madhouse.

[edit] Story

Nasu is a collection of stories, focusing on a returning series of characters, such as Takama, a farmer, and a young girl named Aya Takashi, who begins the series abandoned by her father and residing in Tokyo with her two younger siblings, and as the manga progresses to its second volume, leaves the city to reside in the countryside with her relatives, near Takama's farm. Apart from the chapters concerning Takama and Aya, other stories are also featured, such as one telling the chronicles of samurai in the Edo period hunting forbidden eggplant (nasu), another set atop a futuristic Mount Fuji, another tale concerning a truck driver, and also "Summer in Andalusia", the story concerning the professional Spanish bicyclist Pepe Benengeli, from which the film was adapted.